1967 Pacific typhoon season
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The 1967 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1967, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line
International Date Line
The International Date Line is a generally north-south imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, passing through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, that designates the place where each calendar day begins...

. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1967 Pacific hurricane season
1950-1969 Pacific hurricane seasons
The 1950–1963 Pacific hurricane seasons all began on May 15, 1950-65 in the northeast Pacific Ocean and on June 1, 1950-65 in the central Pacific. They ended on November 30, 1950-65...

. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center is a joint United States Navy – United States Air Force task force located at the Naval Maritime Forecast Center in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is a Philippine national institution dedicated to provide flood and typhoon warnings, public weather forecasts and advisories, meteorological, astronomical, climatological, and other specialized information and...

 or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.

Storms

41 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 35 became tropical storms. 20 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 5 reached super typhoon strength.

Typhoon Violet (Karing)

Typhoon Violet, which formed on April 1, steadily weakened from her peak of 140 mph to hit northeastern Luzon
Luzon
Luzon is the largest island in the Philippines. It is located in the northernmost region of the archipelago, and is also the name for one of the three primary island groups in the country centered on the Island of Luzon...

 as a 115 mph typhoon on the 8th. It dissipated in the South China Sea on the 11th without causing any significant damage.

Typhoon Billie (Herming)

Typhoon Billie, having developed on July 2, reached her peak of 85 mph on the 5th. Its intensity fluctuated as it headed northward to Japan, and became extratropical on the 8th. Its extratropical remnant continued northeastward, and brought heavy rain to Honshū
Honshu
is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait...

 and Kyūshū
Kyushu
is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Its alternate ancient names include , , and . The historical regional name is referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands....

, killing 347 people.

Typhoon Clara (Ising)

A cold core low developed tropical characteristics and became Tropical Depression 8W on July 6. It tracked westward, becoming a tropical storm later that day and a typhoon on the 7th. After briefly weakening to a tropical storm, Clara re-attained typhoon status, and peaked at 115 mph on the 10th. Clara weakened to a 90 mph typhoon just before hitting Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 on the 11th, and dissipated over China the next day. Clara's heavy rains caused 69 fatalities (with 32 missing).

Super Typhoon Opal

Super Typhoon Opal was a powerful system that peaked in winds of 180mph, the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
The Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale , or the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale , classifies hurricanes — Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms — into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds...

.

Super Typhoon Sarah

On September 14, 1967, Tropical Storm Sarah from the 1967 Pacific hurricane season
1967 Pacific hurricane season
The 1967 Pacific hurricane season started on June 1 and ended on November 30, 1967. The season was of little note except for Hurricanes Katrina and Olivia. Katrina made landfall on the Baja Peninsula, killing at least 60 and make 2,500 homeless. Olivia made landfall on the Eastern side of the Baja...

 entered the Western Pacific basin. Immediately after the first advisory following Sarah's entrance into the West Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...

, it was upgraded to a minimal Typhoon. Typhoon Sarah continued to intensify and late on September 15, it was upgraded to a Category 4 typhoon. The next day, Sarah reached a peak of 150 mph winds and 933 millibars in pressure (this was the only pressure reading retrieved from Sarah); this made Sarah a Super typhoon. Sarah started a gradual weakening trend after wards, and late on September 21, Sarah became extratropical as a 80mph Category 1 typhoon.

On September 16, Sarah made landfall on Wake Island
Wake Island
Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu west to Guam east. It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior...

 at peak intensity, causing widespread damage. This was the third tropical cyclone since the beginning of observations in 1935 to bring typhoon-force winds to Wake Island. An unnamed typhoon on October 19 in 1940 (Tomita, 1968) brought 120-knot winds and Olive in 1952 had lashed the island with 150-knot winds. Olive's attack on the island occurred on the 16th of September--exactly 15 years prior to that of Sarah.

Super Typhoon Carla (Trining)

On July 11, Carla hit Taiwan, showering record rainfall amounts on the island, killing 69 people.

Typhoon Dinah (Uring)

Typhoon Dinah struck the southern island of Kyūshū in Japan. 37 people were killed and 10 were missing.

1967 storm names

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The 1967 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1967, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line
International Date Line
The International Date Line is a generally north-south imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, passing through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, that designates the place where each calendar day begins...

. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1967 Pacific hurricane season
1950-1969 Pacific hurricane seasons
The 1950–1963 Pacific hurricane seasons all began on May 15, 1950-65 in the northeast Pacific Ocean and on June 1, 1950-65 in the central Pacific. They ended on November 30, 1950-65...

. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center is a joint United States Navy – United States Air Force task force located at the Naval Maritime Forecast Center in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is a Philippine national institution dedicated to provide flood and typhoon warnings, public weather forecasts and advisories, meteorological, astronomical, climatological, and other specialized information and...

 or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.

Storms

41 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 35 became tropical storms. 20 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 5 reached super typhoon strength.

Typhoon Violet (Karing)

Typhoon Violet, which formed on April 1, steadily weakened from her peak of 140 mph to hit northeastern Luzon
Luzon
Luzon is the largest island in the Philippines. It is located in the northernmost region of the archipelago, and is also the name for one of the three primary island groups in the country centered on the Island of Luzon...

 as a 115 mph typhoon on the 8th. It dissipated in the South China Sea on the 11th without causing any significant damage.

Typhoon Billie (Herming)

Typhoon Billie, having developed on July 2, reached her peak of 85 mph on the 5th. Its intensity fluctuated as it headed northward to Japan, and became extratropical on the 8th. Its extratropical remnant continued northeastward, and brought heavy rain to Honshū
Honshu
is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait...

 and Kyūshū
Kyushu
is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Its alternate ancient names include , , and . The historical regional name is referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands....

, killing 347 people.

Typhoon Clara (Ising)

A cold core low developed tropical characteristics and became Tropical Depression 8W on July 6. It tracked westward, becoming a tropical storm later that day and a typhoon on the 7th. After briefly weakening to a tropical storm, Clara re-attained typhoon status, and peaked at 115 mph on the 10th. Clara weakened to a 90 mph typhoon just before hitting Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 on the 11th, and dissipated over China the next day. Clara's heavy rains caused 69 fatalities (with 32 missing).

Super Typhoon Opal

Super Typhoon Opal was a powerful system that peaked in winds of 180mph, the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
The Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale , or the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale , classifies hurricanes — Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms — into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds...

.

Super Typhoon Sarah

On September 14, 1967, Tropical Storm Sarah from the 1967 Pacific hurricane season
1967 Pacific hurricane season
The 1967 Pacific hurricane season started on June 1 and ended on November 30, 1967. The season was of little note except for Hurricanes Katrina and Olivia. Katrina made landfall on the Baja Peninsula, killing at least 60 and make 2,500 homeless. Olivia made landfall on the Eastern side of the Baja...

 entered the Western Pacific basin. Immediately after the first advisory following Sarah's entrance into the West Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...

, it was upgraded to a minimal Typhoon. Typhoon Sarah continued to intensify and late on September 15, it was upgraded to a Category 4 typhoon. The next day, Sarah reached a peak of 150 mph winds and 933 millibars in pressure (this was the only pressure reading retrieved from Sarah); this made Sarah a Super typhoon. Sarah started a gradual weakening trend after wards, and late on September 21, Sarah became extratropical as a 80mph Category 1 typhoon.

On September 16, Sarah made landfall on Wake Island
Wake Island
Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu west to Guam east. It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior...

 at peak intensity, causing widespread damage. This was the third tropical cyclone since the beginning of observations in 1935 to bring typhoon-force winds to Wake Island. An unnamed typhoon on October 19 in 1940 (Tomita, 1968) brought 120-knot winds and Olive in 1952 had lashed the island with 150-knot winds. Olive's attack on the island occurred on the 16th of September--exactly 15 years prior to that of Sarah.

Super Typhoon Carla (Trining)

On July 11, Carla hit Taiwan, showering record rainfall amounts on the island, killing 69 people.

Typhoon Dinah (Uring)

Typhoon Dinah struck the southern island of Kyūshū in Japan. 37 people were killed and 10 were missing.

1967 storm names

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The 1967 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1967, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line
International Date Line
The International Date Line is a generally north-south imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, passing through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, that designates the place where each calendar day begins...

. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1967 Pacific hurricane season
1950-1969 Pacific hurricane seasons
The 1950–1963 Pacific hurricane seasons all began on May 15, 1950-65 in the northeast Pacific Ocean and on June 1, 1950-65 in the central Pacific. They ended on November 30, 1950-65...

. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center is a joint United States Navy – United States Air Force task force located at the Naval Maritime Forecast Center in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration is a Philippine national institution dedicated to provide flood and typhoon warnings, public weather forecasts and advisories, meteorological, astronomical, climatological, and other specialized information and...

 or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.

Storms

41 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 35 became tropical storms. 20 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 5 reached super typhoon strength.

Typhoon Violet (Karing)

Typhoon Violet, which formed on April 1, steadily weakened from her peak of 140 mph to hit northeastern Luzon
Luzon
Luzon is the largest island in the Philippines. It is located in the northernmost region of the archipelago, and is also the name for one of the three primary island groups in the country centered on the Island of Luzon...

 as a 115 mph typhoon on the 8th. It dissipated in the South China Sea on the 11th without causing any significant damage.

Typhoon Billie (Herming)

Typhoon Billie, having developed on July 2, reached her peak of 85 mph on the 5th. Its intensity fluctuated as it headed northward to Japan, and became extratropical on the 8th. Its extratropical remnant continued northeastward, and brought heavy rain to Honshū
Honshu
is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait...

 and Kyūshū
Kyushu
is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Its alternate ancient names include , , and . The historical regional name is referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands....

, killing 347 people.

Typhoon Clara (Ising)

A cold core low developed tropical characteristics and became Tropical Depression 8W on July 6. It tracked westward, becoming a tropical storm later that day and a typhoon on the 7th. After briefly weakening to a tropical storm, Clara re-attained typhoon status, and peaked at 115 mph on the 10th. Clara weakened to a 90 mph typhoon just before hitting Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 on the 11th, and dissipated over China the next day. Clara's heavy rains caused 69 fatalities (with 32 missing).

Super Typhoon Opal

Super Typhoon Opal was a powerful system that peaked in winds of 180mph, the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
The Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale , or the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale , classifies hurricanes — Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms — into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds...

.

Super Typhoon Sarah

On September 14, 1967, Tropical Storm Sarah from the 1967 Pacific hurricane season
1967 Pacific hurricane season
The 1967 Pacific hurricane season started on June 1 and ended on November 30, 1967. The season was of little note except for Hurricanes Katrina and Olivia. Katrina made landfall on the Baja Peninsula, killing at least 60 and make 2,500 homeless. Olivia made landfall on the Eastern side of the Baja...

 entered the Western Pacific basin. Immediately after the first advisory following Sarah's entrance into the West Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...

, it was upgraded to a minimal Typhoon. Typhoon Sarah continued to intensify and late on September 15, it was upgraded to a Category 4 typhoon. The next day, Sarah reached a peak of 150 mph winds and 933 millibars in pressure (this was the only pressure reading retrieved from Sarah); this made Sarah a Super typhoon. Sarah started a gradual weakening trend after wards, and late on September 21, Sarah became extratropical as a 80mph Category 1 typhoon.

On September 16, Sarah made landfall on Wake Island
Wake Island
Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu west to Guam east. It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior...

 at peak intensity, causing widespread damage. This was the third tropical cyclone since the beginning of observations in 1935 to bring typhoon-force winds to Wake Island. An unnamed typhoon on October 19 in 1940 (Tomita, 1968) brought 120-knot winds and Olive in 1952 had lashed the island with 150-knot winds. Olive's attack on the island occurred on the 16th of September--exactly 15 years prior to that of Sarah.

Super Typhoon Carla (Trining)

On July 11, Carla hit Taiwan, showering record rainfall amounts on the island, killing 69 people.

Typhoon Dinah (Uring)

Typhoon Dinah struck the southern island of Kyūshū in Japan. 37 people were killed and 10 were missing.

1967 storm names

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  • Agnes
  • Bess
  • Carmen
  • Della
  • Elaine
  • Faye
  • Gloria
  • Hester
  • Irma
  • Judy
  • Kit
  • Lola
  • Mamie
  • Nina
  • Ora
  • Phyllis
  • Rita
  • Susan
  • Tess
  • Viola
  • Winnie

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  • Alice
  • Betty
  • Cora
  • Doris
  • Elsie
  • Flossie
  • Grace
  • Helen
  • Ida
  • June
  • Kathy
  • Lorna
  • Marie
  • Nancy
  • Olga
  • Pamela
  • Ruby 1W
  • Sally 2W
  • Therese 3W
  • Violet 4W
  • Wilda 5W

|
  • Anita 6W
  • Billie 7W
  • Clara 8W
  • Dot 9W
  • Ellen 10W
  • Fran 11W
  • Georgia 12W
  • Hope 13W
  • Iris 14W
  • Joan 15W
  • Kate 16W
  • Louise 17W
  • Marge 18W
  • Nora 19W
  • Opal 20W
  • Patsy 21W
  • Ruth 22W
  • Sarah 23W
  • Thelma 24W
  • Vera 25W
  • Wanda 26W

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  • Amy 27W
  • Babe 28W
  • Carla 29W
  • Dinah 30W
  • Emma 31W
  • Freda 32W
  • Gilda 33W
  • Harriet 34W
  • Ivy 35W
  • Jean
  • Kim
  • Lucy
  • Mary
  • Nadine
  • Olive
  • Polly
  • Rose
  • Shirley
  • Trix
  • Virginia
  • Wendy

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See also

  • 1967 Atlantic hurricane season
    1967 Atlantic hurricane season
    The 1967 Atlantic hurricane season was the first year in which the National Hurricane Center was in operation. The season began on June 1, which was the date when the NHC activated radar stations across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico...

  • 1967 Pacific hurricane season
    1967 Pacific hurricane season
    The 1967 Pacific hurricane season started on June 1 and ended on November 30, 1967. The season was of little note except for Hurricanes Katrina and Olivia. Katrina made landfall on the Baja Peninsula, killing at least 60 and make 2,500 homeless. Olivia made landfall on the Eastern side of the Baja...


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